What is "sturdily"

Usage examples of "sturdily".

On the other hand, there were Republicans in that Body who sturdily met the bluster of the Southern Fire-eaters with frank and courageous words expressing their full convictions on the situation and their belief that Concessions could not be made and that Compromises were mere waste paper.

A sturdily built man much of an age with Planir and Herion knelt by the fireplace stacking badly charred tomes inside the fender.

It was a staggery place, even for a sturdily muscled young man like Mr.

She was a sturdily built girl of no more than fifteen or sixteen years with the thick buttocks and legs of a person who hikes and climbs every day.

The fort had been built sturdily, the lower wall of dressed stone quarried far up the Oconee River and ferried arduously down at great cost.

He decided, once he was close enough, that it was sturdily built and would easily carry the two war wags, as long as they took it one at a time.

There, continuing sturdily despite the ordeal they had undergone, Harry and Carter had unearthed the coffer, while Drew Westling had lain asleep from complete exhaustion.

Susanna was taller than Lady Westmorland and more sturdily built, but she did not feel that gave her any advantage.

She is tall and sturdily built, a powerful woman with brown hair and the broad hands of a person who rides and does not fear to wield a weapon.

A sturdily built woman in a decent brown broadcloth dress over neat, unbleached linen was hauling water from a well and looked at us with a challenge in her eyes when we stopped.

Had he alighted elsewhere than upon the top of a sturdily pegged beyt he had doubtless been killed or badly injured when Tantor hurled him thus rudely aside.

The blinds were sturdily constructed of sealed rla wood, strong enough, though in truth any Great Big Momma Snake could have knocked one into splinters with its powerful snout.

He strode quite sturdily downstage to the very edge of the apron and addressed the audience: "A mask, a copy, a travesty.

Many were weedy, with light bones and high haunches, rather thin, necked and far too gaunt to bear any resemblance to the sturdily conformed, rugged, firm, fleshed beasts that had been the pride of Ruatha Hold.

Tom, all in a panic at the very thought of the two ladies, sturdily refused to stay even for the dish of tea Mr.